FAISALABAD, Nov 17: A girl was shot dead while his sister sustained serious bullet wounds when a youth opened fire on them over a marriage issue in Railway Colony here on Tuesday night.
Rafiq Ahmed, a garments factory worker, proposed his colleague Nadra, but her parents refused. In a fit of rage, Rafiq went to the house of Nadra and opened indiscriminate fire on inmates, injuring Nadra and her sister Sameena seriously. Nadra died on way to a hospital while the condition of her sister was stated to be critical. People's Colony police have registered a case against the accused.
CASE: Samundri police on Wednesday registered a case against a landlord for trespassing on burial places of Christians at Chak 461-GB. Aslam Masih lodged a complaint with the DPO claiming that Hameed destroyed the burial places of Christians in the village to grab the graveyard land. At this, the DPO ordered immediate registration of a case against the accused. Police are going into the matter.
MOOT: A two-day national conference on 'preventive and recent updates in cardiology' will be held here on Nov 20 under the aegis of Pakistan Cardiac Society and the DHQ Hospital.
Organizing Committee Chairman Dr. Muhammad Jawed Iqbal told newsmen on Wednesday that renowned cardiologists from all over the country would address the participants.
He said the arrangement of a national conference in the second biggest industrial city of the country was an effort to create awareness among the people about heart diseases and to exchange recent updates with doctors community.
He said only preventive measures and controlling of risk factors could reasonably decrease the graph of heart diseases in the country. For this purpose, the cardiologists and the people would have to make joint efforts, he said.
